Svjetski

Tradition is a burden handed down from one generation to the next — and its highest imperative is clear: the show must go on.

Growing up in a marginalised community of travelling circus performers makes adolescence, the very years in which personal identity takes shape, anything but easy. Even a small child is already seen as a professional athlete, expected to deliver demanding performances. This is the reality of our protagonists — Vojto and his brothers. Yet as the years pass, Vojto gradually begins to push back against the world of his parents.

Imagination, friendship and dreams — the only form of resistance left.

In a devastated Slovak town poisoned by magnesite mining, six Roma children refuse to accept their harsh reality. They find refuge in their imagination, in friendship and in dreams that become their only way of pushing back against the world they were born into.

The project received the Unifrance Doc Award at CPH:FORUM 2026, where the jury praised it for presenting “dreams as an act of resistance.”